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Almost all employees of
Rest Haven Hospital will be
“hired. by the new Saanich
Peninsula Hospital when it
opens in the spring of 1978 -
that’s the word from the

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there will be positions for
all of the ‘Rest. Haven
staff.’

The new hospital will be

The core. curriculum -
introduced. by ‘Education
Minister Pat McGeer to
ensure that certain basics.
are learned in B.C. schools
‘.- has been keeping some. 50
teachers. busy. in. School
District 63. -

«Each school district will
‘be interpreting.. McGeer’s
-published guide to the core
curriculum in’. a’ different’
way. For School District 63
‘it’s a’ question of adjusting
. the present curriculum: to
_arrange for sequencing
from kindergarten ‘through
to grade: .12 something

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larger than Rest Haven and
will be able to employ more
people, he said.

However, there are in-
dications that some of the
staff will not accept jobs at
the Saanich Peninsula
Hospital because they
would have to join the
union - Rest Haven staff
members who are Seventh
Day Adventists are opposed
to unions, Stevenssaid.

He explained that they

‘would not be forced to join
the union but would have to
pay union dues.

Rumors that Rest Haven
employees would lose their
pensions. when _ they

New curriculum
takes uncertainty
out of teaching

Larry Cross, co-ordinator

‘of the curriculum depart-

ment describes as ‘‘learn-
ing certain: things in order
at certain times.”’
Up -until now, because
the curriculum has ‘been in
general terms’ it ‘has © been
left. to teachers in the
classroom «= to make
decisions about specifics.

Social science is’.a wide -
-subject,.

‘depending. on a: teacher’s

for example, and-

choice in this subject it’s.
possible ‘for'‘students to go.

right through-social science

courses -and never © learn:

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transferred to the new
hospital are not true,
‘Stevens said.  ‘‘Staff
members transferring. will
be entitled to their full and
uninterrupted pensions.’
‘“*We are endeavoring to
maintain everyone’s status
and position,’’ he. said,
‘*but some are now paid
above the union rate and
they will be held back until
everyone else catches up.’
There are some problems
in providing a comparable
job for everyone. For
example, Rest Haven. has
two elevator operators - the
new hospital doesn’t have

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Job prospects bright for staff
when Rest

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to find

he is trying. wardrobe. ‘most
replacement jobs for them whoever
and anyone else affected --Hestroy
similarly. Parks t
As well, some Rest “
Haven employees will have
to update their
qualifications, he said.
Rest Haven ad-

ministrator Laurie Dunfield
is pleased with the way
negotiations have gone. ‘‘!
honestly don’t think more
than 10 per cent of the staff
will be without a job at the
Saanich Peninsula
Hospital,’’ she said.
Seventh Day Adventist
Church representatives had

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A toast! To your health, success and -
. happiness in the coming year!

‘content but for students to-
-knowledge.”’. -

visory and task committees,
‘have. been working.on the
“plan. for’ three. months. It
| should be: completed by
“spring and:be available next.

- 4 work with, Cross said:

‘ejaluatldn: will take. place.

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“work. :

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recruit’ staff, but Dunfield Gai
said she didn’t know how ee
many. employees would ‘ pets
choose to move. : .

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some’ part in’ “forming the.

It had to ‘be .a.-
community, effort.’
‘Although - Lcachers “will -
have to adhere to a teaching
plan, there will still be room
for their ‘own, - individual
input in the classroom. ©
Basically, Cross said,’ the.
new program ‘will take a lot
of uncertainty out. of.
“teaching... BO
The. school district also
has: 20 teachers working on
special ‘projects, among ~
‘them, a teach-yourself!
package’ ‘+ something
: “tudems can refer to which
will tell them how to: work .
things out for themselves.
A group wo orking on a —
“master: learning’ project
are concerned with |
upgrading students in
‘report writing and research
skills. The. master. learning
approach recognizes that
children. have. different.
ways of grasping a subject -
visual, verbal, etc, and:
teachers will) need) to- use:
different methods to peach

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